huntress

• hunteress (obsolete)

A variant of hunteress, from Middle English hunteras, hunteres, hunteresse, equivalent to hunter +‎ -ess, possibly on the model of the likes of mistress.

• IPA^(key): /ˈhʌntɹɪs/

huntress (plural huntresses, masculine hunter)

1. (dated) A female hunter.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     In those same woods ye well remember may / How that a noble hunteress did wonne [...].

   • 2014, William Kremer, “A 13-year-old eagle huntress in Mongolia”, in BBC World Service:

     Ashol-Pan, the daughter of a particularly celebrated hunter, may well be the country's only apprentice huntress.

   • 2017, BioWare, Mass Effect: Andromeda, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Reminder:

     Grief and fear cannot rule you;
     let them be your faithful servants, protective of their mistress.
     Loss serves a huntress like fuel serves fire.

• reshunts, shunters